From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUf3c-0000To-Gf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:32:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 356C1E0481; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm1.telefonica.net (impaqm1.telefonica.net [213.4.149.61]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F951E0481 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost1.adm.correo ([10.20.102.38]) by IMPaqm1.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id Bm901b00C0piX6q01mYaNq; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:32:34 +0100 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost1.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id BmYZ1b0063XLmEe1hmYZdZ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:32:33 +0100 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user i92guboj) by jesgue.homelinux.org with HTTP; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:32:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <6d84fb3b7dfe750d8bc20b63968564e1.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <200902040939.33234.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200902040858.23559.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49894363.8060401@comcast.net> <200902040939.33234.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:32:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Guerrero?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ec8ea0e9-67ba-4b95-a580-0609189963ff X-Archives-Hash: 7c90dcee2cd9ea994378edd1bf2e4c22 El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi=F3: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote: > > I personally don't view Gentoo as a "distro" in the traditional sense. = To > me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and the devs tha= t > make cool input files for that app. Building a distro from scratch for > embedded devices is a painful process if you don't have an automated bu= ild > system. It's not quite a trivial exercise, but portage does make it a > whole lot easier. That's mostly what I call a "metadistro". A set of tools and instructions to build a proper distro that suits you, and maintain it. --=20 Jes=FAs Guerrero